Cloud offerings are not a commodity and one size does not fit all. The CloudSpecs Selection Engine helps a cloud user identify the "best fit" IaaS provider based on features, price-performance, security, compliance, hardware, geography and other key requirements.

1. Key User Benefits
Quickly identify providers that meet your requirements
• Flush out irrelevant providers by specifying requirements such as security, data center location,
compliance and regulation, hardware, and virtualization platforms.
• Narrow down and quickly identify the providers that match your criteria from a large pool of
providers active in the IaaS industry.
Determine the right VMs to run your application
• Automatically configure your VM’s performance requirements by running our script.
• Select the minimum requirements on performance that your VM for CPU and disk. Filter between
local and SAN disk.
Realize your cost savings
• Compare what you are currently spending to what you could be spending on alternative providers.
• The CloudSpecs Selection Engine provides a list of results showing the cost of each provider
tailored to your requirements on features, VMs, and performance.
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2. Login Screen. Registration is a simple, standard process with email verification.
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3. Create a new configuration. A configuration is a complete environment with one to multiple VMs.
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Add security requirements such as: data encryption at rest, SSH keys, and identity access management.
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Add compliance requirements such as: FISMA, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS
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Add hardware requirements such as: AMD or Intel-based processors, SSD local or SAN disks, and 10-GB Ethernet connections.
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Add additional requirements such as: geographical location, API access, various features and SLAs.
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Manually add and configure servers (ideal for system administrators and development teams familiar with their environments and
system requirements).
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By manually populating the fields, you can assign the amount of resources you need for the VM, as well as its Server Performance
requirements.
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Configure servers based on existing infrastructure (ideal for developers that work on software and are unfamiliar with performance
requirements of their VMs).
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Automatically populate vCPU RAM Disk based on your existing environment. Automatic population provides the users a script to
paste into their terminal or command prompt within an existing environment. Data is collected and returned to the UI.
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Providers are filtered through based on feature requirements including: Support and Security, Data Center Locations and Regulatory
Compliance, Hardware, Networking and Access, Billing and Discounts, and SLAs (see slides 4-7).
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Once a user’s requirements are met the CloudSpecs Selection Engine will display all providers that meet the requirements along with
their pricing for the user-defined environment.
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For Questions or Inquiries, please contact Cloud Spectator.
contact@cloudspectator.com
+1 (617) 300-0711